James Carlson wrote:
Alan Coopersmith writes:
James Carlson wrote:
In any event, the point where we decide to fork is our problem, not
other people's problem.
But how can we possibly have a common ARC if we all have different
releases? Do we just throw all the ARC distinctions about what you
can do in major, minor, micro out the window?
You've got me. I've pointed out the seeming inconsistency before on
other threads, but John Plocher seems to think that it's not a
problem.
Note that, at least for the minor release binding typically used in
Solaris, it doesn't matter. All that other distributions need to do
is pick a point in time, start a branch, and they're good to go.
Everything that went in up to that point is already known to have a
proper release binding, and it doesn't have to match when Sun pulled a
branch.
Except that ARC's have allowed teams to change interfaces incompatibly
when they haven't actually had a binding release yet, so we'd have to
at least know when people fork their minor branches to know when it's
safe to allow that exception, unless we totally clamp down and say once
it's in any build it's set for the life of that release train.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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